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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Nigel Nelson

Ministers snub proposal to name the Queen 'Elizabeth the Faithful'

Ministers have snubbed a proposal to call the Queen Elizabeth the Faithful in the way England’s Saxon king is known as Alfred the Great.

The plan was put forward by former Tory party treasurer Michael Farmer to make our longest reigning monarch “stand out in the sweep of history”.

And Lord Farmer added: “It has useful ambiguity, as it’s directed both to God and country - work still in progress.”

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